72 Seasons
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About 72 Seasons
■About 72 Seasons
72 Seasons is the first ever application based on the ancient Japanese calendar, in which the year is divided into 24 and then 72 separate seasons. "Spring Winds Thaw the Ice", "The First Peach Blossoms", "Damp Earth Humid Heat", "The Maple and the Ivy Turn Yellow". The 72 Seasons app brings you photographs, illustrations, haiku poems and words based on the poetic names of the seasons, each of which depicts a subtle change in the natural world throughout the year. The app updates according to the old 72 season calendar, approximately every 5 days, allowing you enjoy an ancient yet refreshingly new way to feel the year progress, unhindered by precise dates and times.
■How to Use
The 72 Seasons app is built on two long scrolls. One lists all 72 seasons across the year, the other is "Today's Season". You can view each with the buttons at the bottom of your screen. Flick the scrolls to move through to the end. The Facebook, Twitter and Email buttons at the bottom of your screen allow you to share the app easily with your friends.
■Updates
72 Seasons updates in line with the ancient 72 season calendar, approximately every five days. Once a new season starts, you are unable to see the seasons that came before. 72 Seasons will only update if your phone or ipad is connected to the net.
■About the 24 and 72 season calendars.
Japan has four beautiful seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. The rich expressions of each season color our lives throughout the year, and historically the Japanese have paid special attention to the seasons and their influence on daily life since olden times.
The origins of that can be found in the ancient 24 season calendar. The path of the sun as seen from Earth creates a zodiac, 360 degrees divided into 24 15-degree sections, each one given a name to depict the seasonal changes through the year, with each season lasting just 15 days.
In olden times a lunar calendar was used, based on the waxing and waning of the moon, which meant that the position of the sun and the dates on the calendar would gradually shift out of sync. It is possible that the 24 season calendar was a way to compensate for this, and provide a calendar that satisfactorily depicted the changes in the seasons which matched with daily life.
And beyond that, each season of the 24 season calendar was then divided again into three more, to create the 72 season calendar. Each of these 72 seasons lasts just five days or so, and the names of each season beautifully depict the tiny, delicate changes in nature that occur around us, year in year out.
72 Seasons is the first ever application based on the ancient Japanese calendar, in which the year is divided into 24 and then 72 separate seasons. "Spring Winds Thaw the Ice", "The First Peach Blossoms", "Damp Earth Humid Heat", "The Maple and the Ivy Turn Yellow". The 72 Seasons app brings you photographs, illustrations, haiku poems and words based on the poetic names of the seasons, each of which depicts a subtle change in the natural world throughout the year. The app updates according to the old 72 season calendar, approximately every 5 days, allowing you enjoy an ancient yet refreshingly new way to feel the year progress, unhindered by precise dates and times.
■How to Use
The 72 Seasons app is built on two long scrolls. One lists all 72 seasons across the year, the other is "Today's Season". You can view each with the buttons at the bottom of your screen. Flick the scrolls to move through to the end. The Facebook, Twitter and Email buttons at the bottom of your screen allow you to share the app easily with your friends.
■Updates
72 Seasons updates in line with the ancient 72 season calendar, approximately every five days. Once a new season starts, you are unable to see the seasons that came before. 72 Seasons will only update if your phone or ipad is connected to the net.
■About the 24 and 72 season calendars.
Japan has four beautiful seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. The rich expressions of each season color our lives throughout the year, and historically the Japanese have paid special attention to the seasons and their influence on daily life since olden times.
The origins of that can be found in the ancient 24 season calendar. The path of the sun as seen from Earth creates a zodiac, 360 degrees divided into 24 15-degree sections, each one given a name to depict the seasonal changes through the year, with each season lasting just 15 days.
In olden times a lunar calendar was used, based on the waxing and waning of the moon, which meant that the position of the sun and the dates on the calendar would gradually shift out of sync. It is possible that the 24 season calendar was a way to compensate for this, and provide a calendar that satisfactorily depicted the changes in the seasons which matched with daily life.
And beyond that, each season of the 24 season calendar was then divided again into three more, to create the 72 season calendar. Each of these 72 seasons lasts just five days or so, and the names of each season beautifully depict the tiny, delicate changes in nature that occur around us, year in year out.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
You can now purchase and download content. Choose from the four seasons
individually or the one year bundle.
Thanks for using 72 Seasons!
Please rate us after each update.
You can now purchase and download content. Choose from the four seasons
individually or the one year bundle.
Thanks for using 72 Seasons!
Please rate us after each update.
Version update 72 Seasons was updated to version 1.1.2
More downloads 72 Seasons reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update 72 Seasons was updated to version 1.1.0
More downloads 72 Seasons reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
What are users saying about 72 Seasons
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Phone told me it has a virus, sucks because I like the concept
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An amazing educational resource for Japanese culture.
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I love this so much and downloaded the Japanese version too, but can we please have a setting for southern hemisphere users, so we can switch the seasons? Thank you!
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I just love this app. It's made with such care and beauty. I'm living in southern Canada and it is very accurate. I also love to learn more about the Japanese culture every week.
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A new and poetic view of the season and Nature every two weeks. Simply beautiful! Looking forward to the downloadable content.
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Seemingly well researched content, nicely explained, and packed into a beautiful app. Looking forward to each seasonal update.
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Correction: shima-aji have horizontal stripes, not vertical.
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Doesn't open. Nice idea, but I can't get the app to even open.
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Just lovely
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yea yeah
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when I installed this app, my antivirus software told me the app contained MALWARE
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avast warned against malware inside this app
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Why is malware detected?
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Contains malware
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Love it. Beautiful
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Beautiful
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What can I say? Not only is the information in this app very unique with, I feel, a unique insight into Japanese culture, but it is also beautifully designed. I'd never thought things could look this clear and say, poetic, on my phone. I love reading everything there is to this app, and open it every day just to look at it, even if I already read everything. I cannot recommend this app enough! A mandatory download.
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I look forward to reading each change of season. Living in northern regions of the US, it is amazingly accurate.
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Beautiful and interesting but no longer notifies me when a new season begins :(
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Beautiful.
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Awesome insight into Japanese culture, but I'd like to select and view other seasons than the current one (the only one available). The absence of such feature is especially annoying since season 27 (the one I care the most, as my birthday falls in it) is bugged and keeps displaying season 26. I guess I'll have to do without knowing what season 27 is about, this year.
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Artful and pleasant presentation. Postcard-like vignettes illustrate how the continuous, natural flow of seasonal cycles is reflected in the Japanese environment and culture. Simple & easy, yet delightfully well-researched with respect to weather, wildlife, cultural aesthetics, culinary and poetic traditions, mythological and linguistic heritage, and more.
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Interesting 72 microseasons! Now I'm looking forward to see the weekly updates.
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An awesome way to stay "in the moment"! Great app, love the poetry, art, food and cultural notes!!
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Inspiring and beautiful. Although I really wish there was a way to switch it to suit the southern hemisphere...
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Look to read the updates every few days.
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Help reminding the wonders of nature...
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Delightful
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I really wanted to download this, but Avast informed me it had a - Android:FakeInst-AUG (Trj) - so I guess I won't download it. Is this a mistake on Avast's part? I don't want a virus....but I reeeealy want to learn about the seasons in Japan
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Avast Virus Scanner identified a Trojan when I tried installing this. May have been a false positive? Still, I'd steer clear till issue is solved.
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My antivirus shows me the following message: "72 seasons contains malicious code. Android:FakeInst-AUG [Trj]"
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when I installed this app, my antivirus software told me the app contained MALWARE
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Why is malware detected?
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I would like to be able to read about the previous seasons in the app,they become unavailable to click on whenever there is a new update.
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Amazing, quite descriptive and very lovely. Thank you.
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Interesting 72 microseasons! Now I'm looking forward to see the weekly updates.
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Wow, English version of 72 seasons. I cannot wait for explain to American friends how Japanese seasons are poetically and romantically rooted in people's lives.
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Good idea, but the implementation can be improved
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Doesn't get any better than this
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I really like the perspective that it grants, and the app itself is done very beautifully! I only wish that you would develop a widget for it so I wouldn't have to fully open up the app every time I wanted to check it haha